John Williams - The New York Times
"One of the all-time great book covers."
11 November 2021
John Williams - The New York Times

John Williams from The New York Times tweets: "Rare day back in the office meant a rare day in the company of one of the all-time great book covers," with a snapshot of Mariana Cook's Economists (Yale University Press, 2020).

Financial Times Magazine
The chancing face of economics
19 December 2019
Financial Times Magazine

The Financial Times Magazine features Mariana Cook's newest book, Economists, in its latest issue.

Charles Saumarez Smith
Review of Factum Fetishes
1 March 2019
Charles Saumarez Smith

Review of "Factum Fetishes" at Factum Arte in Madrid, Spain by Charles Saumarez Smith.

The New Yorker
Faces of Justice
5 April 2013
The New Yorker

By Sasha Weiss

Mariana Cook’s portrait photography seems to corroborate the old myth of the camera as a soul-stealing machine. Her eye is warmly enveloping, yet also sharp and efficient—like an emotional pickpocket, she removes crucial human essences and stores them on film. One can only imagine the deft charm she must employ to get these photographs, which are marked by gestures and gazes and oddities that the viewer immediately knows to be characteristic of their subjects. In her many books of portraiture—among them, “Couples,” “Generations of Women,” “Mothers and Sons,” “Fathers and Daughters”—Cook presents images alongside text, distilled from interviews she conducts with the people in the photos. The interplay between the photographer’s vision of her subject and the subject’s account of herself produces a simultaneous sense of precision and of mystery: How much can we really see of a person? How much can they really see of themselves? Cook seeks, with a kind of patient force, to know as much as she can. READ MORE